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Ask an agent from any section — browser-side kickoff via the AI Task Runner

building-the-game/005 · created 2026-09-03 · updated 2026-09-03 · blocked by building-the-game/003

What to do

Kris’s call: the browser holds the task-runner key (lor:taskrunner, pasted once by a signed-in admin, never sent to the Builder) and speaks MCP streamable HTTP straight to https://kris.ai-task-runner.com/ — initialize (keep the Mcp-Session-Id header) → notifications/initialized → tools/call submit_task {project: "lor", prompt}; the id comes back in the text as Task queued: <id>; task_status polling for the task list.

Builder: GET /builder/context/<section>.md — the section’s prompt frame (canonical files, the epic, the PICKUP protocol, the current values summarised) that the panel pastes above the typed instruction.

Site: src/lib/taskRunner.ts, a one-time “connect your task runner” dialog, an Ask an agent panel in every Building section (admin only), a task list with live status, and on each epic page a “pick up this epic” button (this closes workspace-dashboard/004).

Outside the repo: the task runner’s hard-coded CORS allow-list (server.py, Moment origins + localhost) must gain https://spellgrove.com.

Definition of done

One real kickoff whose task touches only a scratch file and shows up in list_tasks.

Built (2026-09-03)

Browser-side, as Kris asked: site/src/lib/taskRunner.ts speaks MCP (streamable HTTP) to kris.ai-task-runner.com with a key pasted once into the browser (lor:taskrunner); the “Ask an agent” panel (AskAgent.astro) sits on every Building section, the world map and every epic page (that one is the “pick up this epic” button workspace-dashboard/004 wanted), visible to admins only. The Builder serves the section’s frame at GET /builder/context/<section>.md from builder/prompts/. The task runner’s CORS allow-list now includes https://spellgrove.com (repo claude_task_runner, branch slim, and patched in place in the running atr-kris container).

Not yet done: a real kickoff — that needs Kris’s own key pasted into his browser. The first one should ask for something small and reversible.

Review artifact: site/src/components/AskAgent.astro

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